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Respect compressed into one syllable, traveling from theater backstage to playground sincerity.
means Proper recognition or credit given to someone for something they did or are.
from Hip-hop shorthand for proper respect or proper recognition, clipped down to a single emphatic syllable in the late 1980s and ushered into the mainstream by A Tribe Called Quest.
Double lifeAlso short for stage and movie property objects.
Spelled pluralAlways takes an s, never just prop.
Sister phraseMad props amplifies the respect even further.